Major League Baseball and the Major League Baseball Players Association announced on Tuesday that the organizations will donte $500,000 through 2021 to nonprofits to help stop human trafficking.
Their contributions will aid nonprofits that highlight education and programming to stop human trafficking. The grantees include Strike Out Slavery, which Angels star Albert Pujols and his wife Deidre created in 2017 to raise awareness about the existence of modern slavery.
The Pujols, other MLB players, experts and MLB and MLBPA representatives will make up a special council to decide where to direct funding to organizations over the next three years.